Sexual Cultures in Aotearoa NZ Education
New Zealand has a high degree of
social inclusion and some of the most advanced human rights legislation. Yet
recent research suggests that New Zealand’s relatively ‘inclusive’ social
climate is not always reflected in our educational settings. Sexual Cultures in Aotearoa New Zealand
Education looks at how learners and educators are responding to the
cultural expectation that everyone is and should be heterosexual.
‘This book examines how the heterosexual
presumption operates within education settings to the detriment of
alternatives,’ says co-editor Alexandra Gunn. ‘We consider the way this shapes
thinking, policies and practices, and we ask what this means for teachers,
students and parents. How can education settings become more socially just
sites of inclusion for sexual and gender diversity?’
Sexual
Cultures
includes work from emerging and established researchers and brings to light a
range of practices that assist social justice-minded educators to challenge
social exclusion and to expand education practices toward inclusivity and
change.
‘Understanding more fully the way
in which preconceptions about gender and sexuality work in everyday settings
will help empower every educator,’ says co-editor Lee Smith. ‘The chapters in
this book are intended as a tool for raising awareness and as a call to
action.’
Sexual Cultures covers different
sectors of New Zealand education – early childhood, primary, secondary,
tertiary and alternative – and will be an invaluable resource for practising and qualifying teachers as well as teacher
educators and researchers of gender, sexuality and education.
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Alexandra
Gunn
works at the University of Otago College of Education teaching and
researching in early childhood education, inclusion, assessment and teacher
education. Alex’s work interests centre on social justice; in particular on
teachers’ beliefs and practices and how these reflect, produce and disrupt
taken-for-granted norms. She previously co-edited Te Aotūroa Tātaki: Inclusive early childhood education (NZCER
Press).
Lee
Smith
finished her PhD (Education) at the University of Otago in 2012. Her research
interests include gender,
sexuality, youth and spatiality. Lee has conducted research with queer
populations for a number of years and has published in a number of leading
educational, youth, ICT and geography journals. She has recently been
employed as an ARF at the University of Otago School of Dentistry where she
is collaborating on research project about children’s visits to dental
clinics.
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Sexual Cultures
in Aotearoa NZ Education
Edited
by Alexandra C. Gunn
and
Lee A. Smith
Release
Date: December 2015
ISBN 978-1-877578-68-7, $45
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